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July 03, 2007

Blog-a-Book: Summer reading challenge

by Gina Dalfonzo

Perhaps you heard Chuck Colson talking today about BreakPoint's new summer reading list. Here's the commentary, in case you didn't -- and here's the list, compiled of all those book suggestions we tossed around the last few weeks.

And here's a challenge for those of you who love to read:

Next week a group of us bloggers, along with two guest bloggers from our internship program, are starting "Blog-a-Book." It's an idea we got from Slate's "Blog the Bible" feature, although our vision is just a bit less ambitious. Each of us has selected a book from the new reading list and, for nine weeks (starting July 9), will be reading it and writing about it here on the blog.

We'd like to challenge you to join us. If you're game, choose a book from the list and blog along with us! You can use the comment section on any of our Blog-a-Book posts to log your thoughts and impressions on what you're reading. Some of your comments may be quoted on the main blog site as well.

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Comments

Terrific idea, guys. A few of us have already committed to joining you. Thanks for holding high the banner for quality reading.

Another source I encourage you to check out is The Book Den (thebookden.blogspot.com) a literary site specifically designed to encourage and assist Christians who desire to read the best books around. There you'll find specific book reviews, quotes, information about our reading clubs, and even some fun stuff like "Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from Sherlock Holmes."

Check out http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
to download free public domain books for your PDA or computer. I've downloaded and read almost all of George MacDonald's books. I can see why he was a favorite of C.S. Lewis!
Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Shakspeare,Tolstoy, and many more are available for free.